Roads in line for £7m repair work

More than £7m will be spent repairing the town’s roads over the next two years. A total of £6.4m from the £10m pot of money set aside by the council to improve the borough’s roads,will be spent on highways around the Rochdale and Pennines by 2015. A further £700,000 will be spent from the council’s annual road investment scheme.

REPAIR LIST: Halifax Road, Smallbridge, is earmarked as part of the repairs scheme

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More than £7m will be spent repairing the town’s roads over the next two years.

A total of £6.4m from the £10m pot of money set aside by the council to improve the borough’s roads,will be spent on highways around the Rochdale and Pennines by 2015.

A further £700,000 will be spent from the council’s annual road investment scheme.

A report set to go before members of Rochdale and Pennine township next week reveals more than 150 roads earmarked for improvement.

These include a £224,000 project for Manchester Road, work on Daventry Road in Kirkholt, Oldham Road, Bolton Road, John Street and Molesworth Street, as well as schemes on Barnes Meadow, Halifax Road and Huddersfield Road.

In the report, set to go before councillors, Linda Fisher, the council’s director of corporate services, says: "Delivery of the schemes will be coordinated with the street lighting PFI programme, other highways schemes, planning applications, other council schemes and third party utility works.

"Should it become necessary to delay or postpone a scheme in the agreed programme, this will be done in consultation with the portfolio holder and the chair of the township committee. Quarterly updates will be provided to the township committees, on progress of the schemes and any matters arising.

"Subject to value of schemes that have been completed by the end of year one, additional schemes may be identified for year two."

Just over £4m will also be spent on roads in Heywood and Middleton.

Rochdale council revealed plans to create a £10m Highway Improvement Programme (HIP) in April last year after it was revealed more than £44m would be needed to bring the borough’s roads up to scratch after years of under investment and three consecutive sub-zero winters.

Since then, engineers have been reviewing what roads should be repaired using the cash.